Years Ago

Today is Saturday, June 23, the 175th day of 2012. There are 191 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1812: Britain, unaware that America had declared war against it five days earlier, rescinds its policy on neutral shipping, a major issue of contention between the two countries.

1938: The Civil Aeronautics Authority is established.

1947: The Senate joins the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

1969: Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

1972: President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discuss a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation spark Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: An engineering study of the Strouss-Kaufmann’s parking deck on Federal Plaza places the cost of structural repairs at $781,000, which could come from a state grant of $1 million. The total cost of rehabilitation could top $1.5 million.

Bishop James W. Malone celebrates a Mass of thanksgiving at St. Lucy Church in Campbell to mark the parish’s 50th anniversary.

1972: Chris Potos, of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chicago office, tells attendees at a conference at Youngstown State University that the government might relax deadlines for meeting anti-pollution standard for the Mahoning River if companies are making concrete efforts.

Two recent Chaney graduates representing Choffin Career Center, James T. Burnett and Dennis D. DiMuzio, win eighth place in the National Plymouth Trouble Shooting Contest in Los Angeles, competing against 108 teams from across the nation.

1962: Two Liberty Township patrolmen thwart an attempted safe-cracking at the Montgomery Ward store in the Liberty Plaza, causing the yeggs to flee before they could drill through an inner door and reach the $3,000 inside.

Steelworker Joseph Meleg, 38 of Campbell, is killed on his lunch hour at Canfield Steel Corp. when his neck was caught in the drive chain of a recoiler machine.

1937: Trumbull CIO leaders call a general strike in protest of National Guardsmen being stationed at the Warren and Niles Republic plants to allow men who have been in the plants for four weeks to come and go under Guard protection.

CIO attorneys Forrest Cavalier of Youngstown and Ben Segal of Pittsburgh file 119 habeas corpus actions in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court seeking the release of persons arrested since the strike riot.